Lost over 20 days to being sick, had a horribad influeza for 10 days as well and haven't been able to click bet sizings for a month thanks to my wrist being screwed.

At 5100€ now with 28 days to go, so bankroll 10x'd and all we need is a 2x.

Down money at every buyin level above 5s, all profits are basically from 5s and 2s. Probably up 1800 buyins or so.

Gonna be a hell of a sweat

Ayyyyyy gogoogogogo

How much time is left?

Legooooooooooooo

Well he said 28 days left in the post 2 above yours, also posted today, so 28 days left probably

^^ Haha, LOL, yeah

Should probably read OPs posts properly next time

TY, GL

put 5000€ on red, job done.

Black imo

Bring it home, son.

Need at least weekly updates with less than a month to go, GL!

Please to this.

I guess I wish that you binked huge in the beginning for your sake but tbh a part of me enjoys the sweat. Hopefully you heal up and get back on the grind. Best of luck.

havent posted here in ages but thought i d make a comeback to wish you gl
always enjoyed your writing style keep it up!
at this point at even money I would def bet on you rather than against but friendly suggestion from someone who made that decision 5years ago is quit professional poker no matter the result and just play once in a while when u feel like it, the joy of winning becomes much greater again.
remember meeting you years ago in prague with marcel...gimme a shout if u re in london sometime we can go out for some drinks

Thanks for all the well wishes above got 19 days left and I'm at 5550€. Been bricking super hard and then just now got 13th/23535932952385 runners in a mass field Wseries, pretty soulcrushing. Biggest score is still 500€ from literally day 1 and I'm down ~3500 euros at 10s and above. Pretty sick to think that if I had never regged a single tournament above 5€ I would have more or less binked the bet already, haha.

Anyway, this bet has been pretty eye-opening really. I realize thar this may sound like I'm saying this just because I've played too much, but deep down I've reached the ultimate conclusion that whether I win or lose I'm done with poker. During this grind I've found other career prospects that I find more meaningful for myself and I've realized that ultimately poker lifestyle is just too draining for me these days. There's so much I want to get done in this life and I think I've reached the stage where poker is rather holding me back than helping in any way. Poker used to be all upside -- I used to travel 150 days a year at one point, saw the world, had access to all kinds of things -- but now that I'm a bit older the things that I'm interested in aren't really materialistic and I feel that to unleash my creativity I need to let go of poker entirely. I've lived a pretty crazy life by most people's standards and even though it sounds lame and grown-up, I've found myself craving normal routines and stability. I was never after money per se, I just wanted to have access to everything that used to be meaningful to me in the past, and back in the day poker was the best way to achieve my life goals. But those goals have changed now that I'm 31 instead of 21, and to reach the new ones I have to let go of gambling for a living.

I'm not sure yet what exactly it is that I'll end up doing post-poker, but regardless of what happens I'm going to be done on January 29th. I have a Unibet live pleb ticket I need to use in February, and there's a clause in the bet that if I lose I'm still allowed to play for another month and officially I'll only quit 30 days after the last day of the challenge (this clause was added because obviously I'm not going to find a job on day 1 after the challenge, so it wouldn't make any sense for me to be forced to do nothing), so I might dabble around here and there and play all my favorite MTTs a few more times for old times' sake, but yeah basically I've got 3 weeks left of this career and then I'm done. Couldn't feel better about it really

I've been in talks with a couple of poker companies and there's a small chance I might end up working for one of them. This is going to be another big crossroads and honestly I don't have a good answer to how I feel about that side yet. I'm not really a business oriented person, and I never thought I'd pursue anything like working for a big gambling company. But then again, it's a really good feeling to be good at what you do, and I don't know if there's anything in the world I'd consider myself more of an expert at than poker-related stuff (I've done heaps of stuff from consulting to content creating for half the poker companies over the years). So even though a part of me hopes to do something entirely different next, I'm at least going to consider turning this into a career on the other side of the fence.

Either way, I feel really at peace with everything and couldn't be much happier about the direction my life is about to take and don't feel much pressure about the bet itself. I might do one more English stream after the challenge but we'll see.

Hey man, of course I remember you, you were doing some sort of money transfer on my laptop at the hotel lobby and I nearly missed my flight because of it

I actually didn't know you'd quit poker, and especially that you'd quit that long ago. It seems like you're pretty content with that decision, so good for you! I'll be in London next month for the Unibet Open, I'll hit you up and we shall have a drink or seventeen.

Btw do you have any idea about what happened to Marcel in the end? As in, is he even alive? He doesn't owe me anything, I just always wondered if he ever managed to turn it around. Seemed like a good soul to me (and yes, I'm aware he scammed half of 2p2 and almost certainly tried to scam me too), just a really troubled one. Now that my adventures in the poker world are coming to an end I've often found myself thinking about some tragic stuff from the past decade that I've been around these circles. Several OGs have passed away and there are a couple of really tragic stories there. I'll never forget Dana Gordon even though I never even met him. HotKarl and Marcel I both met, I was pretty sad to hear HMC had died as well even though he scammed a bunch of people in the end. Marcel seemed to be pretty deep down that same path and I'd love to hear if he somehow got his life back in order, it's been years since I heard anything... I don't know, maybe I'm old and naive but there was something about that kid that made me think good of him even though we all know what he did.

All the best Chuck!

<3 <3 for the chuck

In before u chop anniversary SM <3
Gl

if this doesn't work out, think about writing. copy writing as 'bread & butter game' and other stuff for yourself ... anyway, gl with your future adventures!

I'm glad you've put more consideration into working for an operator.

Havent seen marcel since 2011 but he did pay me back like 3k he owed last year. He is studying in uni in Norway and he seems to be doing much better in life than those dark days of his.

Just saw this unibet open unfortunately cant play main event as i have arranged a ski trip from saturday that is day2. i will prob play the 2k tho the casino is very close to my place anyway so gimme a shout on fb when u re around. ohh and gl closing down this bet tough grind

Ohhhh wow that's awesome, super happy for Marcel. For once there seems to be a happy ending, made my night!

update?

Took big shots, did not work out, we are gg assuming no last minute miracles. It's all good tho, life's gooooood

Got time until Monday 21:59 GMT+0, anything I reg before that counts regardless of when it finishes. Bankroll at 6538€ + some sunday major tickets to be used on Sunday for last minute sweats

As stated before, I will quit regardless, really don't want to see another hand of poker in my life. But gonna gamble hard this weekend tho.

If/when I lose I'll be allowed to play as much as I want until the last day of February. Not planning to play almost at all but if you see me around in random MTTs still in February that'll be the reason why. Will probably play some live birds tho, that's the only aspect of poker I'll really miss even though I was always pretty terrible at it compared to online.

at the end of this do you wanna post
the best scheduled for mtt abi 5/10/ 15 not only the poker room but a "detailed"

im so curious about your opinion

Keep getting asked about this so much it's unreal, I currently have 996 PMs on 2+2 and probably half of them are about game selection. Sure I'll be happy to write about game selection but I can compress everything I have to say into a couple of sentences:

1) They're lowstakes MTTs, they're all vanilla, ppl should focus more on improving and less on what $5 mtt gives you a 2% better ROI

2) If your main site is Stars, or to a lesser extent Party, there's a 99% chance you're very very bad at game selection. Most people would be a lot better off just uninstalling Stars forever

3) If you're not happy with your results, your main job is trying to improve. But it's also possible to make a career out of nothing even if you SUCK at teh pokers (I'm a pretty good example of this, I still barely know how to calculate pot odds and had a 10-year, +600k career). But if this is what you want to be, then you need to play when no one else plays and what no one else plays. You need to hunt when everyone else sleeps, LOVE regging plebs at 4.30am with 37 player fields, you need to take pride in stalling to get a payjump for 1/50th of your daily loss, you need to constantly be refreshing lobbies to find overlays, you need to love grinding on software coded by summer interns, you need to set up alarms for every minute that has an 1r1a turbo somewhere about to reach the addon period so you can buy in for min in the last hand, etc. And guess when it's time to take a holiday? When WCOOPs and SCOOPs begin. Those are your weeks you get off annually, that's when you go on a beach holiday to recharge some batteries. The only shots you will take will be in the summer and right after big online serieses when fields are at their smallest and good regs are resting.

I always put a lot of effort into finding the best games, and I'm not going to tell you where exactly to find them - I'd most likely be doing you a disservice anyway because most people are better off doing anything but the plebgrind.

4) Also people tend to think that softness of a tournament is somehow the key factor behind a regging decision. A good example would be PKO MTTs. There's always some dolt donating 100BB on the first level with some absurd spazzhand -> bad regs think "wow these tournaments are soft, I'm going to reg every PKO I can find". Whereas in reality regging these is generally just lighting money on fire. The best tournaments to reg are the ones that make you the most money. Should be simple but people's regging habits are and will always be disastrous. Like, many regs use hundreds of hours of their life trying to master the exact 14BB CO shoving range whereas it doesn't matter **** whether you get it right or not (I couldn't nail it or even get close). But somehow they spend no time at all thinking what games they should play in and just choose every red tournament on Stars and every tournament with a KO sign next to it because they think that's the way to make money.


If you want to learn how to approach regging and other stuff I wrote about it in length here: https://www.upswingpoker.com/tournam...er-ending-mtt/



I'm also working on my final Upswing article which is going to blow some minds. It's not specifically about game selection but sort of goes along these same lines